Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and AGs from 21 other states are urging the U.S. Department of Education to keep a rule they say that, if removed, will impede the 1st Amendment rights of religious groups on college campuses.
The Biden Administration is considering doing away with part of a Trump-era rule that bars institutions of higher education from denying faith-based student organizations because of a group’s “beliefs, practices, policies, speech, membership standards or leadership standards," any rights, benefits, or privileges afforded to non-religious student groups.
Yost and other state AGs argue the rule change would single out religious organizations and cause "irreparable harm to students for no federal benefit.”
Critics of the rule have argued it requires colleges to allow religious student groups to discriminate against LGBTQ students and other marginalized groups.
